Re: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

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Author: Eric Shubert
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Looking for Hardware Recommendations
Charles Wyble wrote:
>
> Eric Shubert wrote:
>
>> Do you really need the speed for backups? You might consider using USB2
>> instead of eSATA. I have external backup drives configured mirrored
>> (with software raid-1) on USB2. It works nicely. It's not as fast as
>> eSATA would be, but it's adequate.
>>
>
> So many USB drives and motherboards come with e-sata support though.
> Might as well. :)


Of course, use eSATA if it's there. :)

> I use USB2 for my backups with rsync and it works great. However I'm
> considering moving to e-sata for additional speed.



--
-Eric 'shubes'

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